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From the Sperry Garden: Potting Soils

By Neil Sperry • July 11, 2017

I’m frequently asked to recommend a brand of potting soil. I say that I haven’t found one that I really like, so I mix up my own. The complaint I …

From the Sperry Garden: Peace Lilies

By Neil Sperry • July 5, 2017

They aren’t really lilies – not even close. They’re related to caladiums, anthurriums, philodendrons, dieffenbachias, aglaonemas and other plants with the unusual Jack-in-the-pulpit style blooms. But spathiphyllums do bring a …

Plant of the Week: June 29, 2017

By Neil Sperry • June 27, 2017

When I was a kid I was completely fascinated by the leaf patterns of Rex begonias. But you rarely saw them in nurseries. I’d read about them in old garden …

From the Sperry Gardens: May 25, 2017

By Neil Sperry • May 23, 2017

I bought a single 1-gallon pot of this groundcover 30 years ago in Fort Worth. To say that it has prospered would be like saying Elvis and the Beatles made …

From the Sperry Gardens: October 20, 2016

By Neil Sperry • October 18, 2016

The old rule is that “if it blooms in the fall, you dig and divide it in spring, and if it blooms in the spring, you dig and divide …

From the Sperry Gardens: “Uh oh!”

By Neil Sperry • August 31, 2016

It was such a great idea at the outset. Build our house where a small pecan tree could grow to shade it. That was back in 1977, and shade was …

From the Sperry Garden: June 23, 2016

By Neil Sperry • June 20, 2016

You may have heard me say, or you may have seen my writing about how I perk up the shaded parts of our garden. After all, shade is all that …

From the Sperry Gardens: May 26, 2016

By Neil Sperry • May 23, 2016

I bought a single 1-gallon pot of this groundcover 30 years ago in Fort Worth. To say that it has prospered would be like saying Elvis and the Beatles …

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